Moscow is outraged over the desecration of the cemetery of Soviet soldiers and prisoners of war in the Polish city of Gdansk, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 16th August, 2018) Moscow is outraged over the desecration of the cemetery of Soviet soldiers and prisoners of war in the Polish city of Gdansk, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
"The Foreign Ministry is outraged by yet another hideous act that was committed against the Soviet memorial sites in Poland. Vandals left broken or damaged 23 stars on mass graves at a cemetery in Gdansk that holds the remains of some 3,000 Soviet servicemen, civilians and prisoners of war. Efforts are underway to eliminate the damage, and Russian diplomats are working with the Polish authorities," the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry recalled that the Nazis had been pushed out of Gdansk in the spring of 1945 by heroic Soviet soldiers, many of whom lost their lives to liberate the city.
"The Gdansk incident is yet another link in a series of thuggish attacks against our monuments at Polish cemeteries that we have been witnessing in recent years. We believe incidents of this kind result from Warsaws destructive policy to cleanse the country from any reminders of its liberation by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War and rewrite the history of what followed, while claiming to promote 'decommunisation,'" it added.
The ministry also called for an urgent investigation into the incident and for the perpetrators to be punished. It also urged Warsaw to fulfill its international obligations, and remember the "moral duty" it had to the memory of the heroes and victims of the war.
